America Is Depleting a More Powerful Weapon Than Its Missiles

It was reported last week that the Iranian missile inventory has been depleted from about 5,000 to a thousand or so, and that the US and its allies are now firing one or two Patriots at each incoming airborne threat, in place of the clusters unleashed at the start. In other words, both sides are experiencing munitions shortages.

But my longer-term concern is the depletion — indeed, exhaustion — of another American weapon, which I think is more important than mere hardware: belief in the truth of what the leader of the US tells the world about the war, peace and everything else.